Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-23

side. This done, at the elbow OF the
road would then start up town which
would control the whole trade of the
eastern portion of the county, which
would be far more than any town west
OF us could command. 4 road from the
east would strike this town first. If il
should come up the river II would leave
10 Medicine Lodge the whole trade of
the Elm Creek Valley, and all the
broad, beautiful prairie east, north and
south, besides taking the trade halfway
TO points OH either side.
Both the Medicine Lodge river and
Elm creek furnish excellent water pow
er at this town, while at Stephenson the
river at times goes dry, as several men
now III the county can testify. Ar
engagements are being made TO build a
grlSt mill To be run by water at this
town this fall, aud it IL only question
OF time about wooden mills being built
here.
Medicine Lodge has now mail route
established from Hutchinson, and will
soon have tri-weekly mail. Congress
was nemOriallZed last winter by our
state legislature TO establish mail
route from Great Bend and Wichita al
80 To this town. No other town i'm the
county can get mail route established
before next spring or summer.
The simple fact that no other town
IN the county has the start of this is
proof that our natural advantages are
superior to those of any other town,
and yet our advantages for county seat
are not inferior to any other town, in
any particular.
II is conceded by all that no town as
near the center of the county as Medi-
cine Lodge commands as much terrific
ry that will settle up thickly, and con-
Sequently control So much trade as
this town.
III Medicine Lodge is the permanent
county seat, good trading points will
build up at Sun City and KiOwa, but if
little towns grow up between Medicine
Lodge and those points. much of the
trade which would otherwise go to
their support would be taken by these
small places, and the prospects of Sun
City and Kiowa would be materially
injured. People living near these
places should work for their own town
by placing the county seat at Medicine
Lodge. Their business would not call
them to the county seat Oftener than
once year, when mile or two of trav-
ell would amount to nothing, and if they
had good trading point within a few
miles the value of their land would be
enhanced far more than if they spoiled
their own town by putting the county
seat too near.
DO not be deceived fellow citizens.
and think that town will be built at
any point in the county where no I'M
provementS have been made except
some mere temporary ones made just
before election to secure your votes.
1t is dangerous to put the county seat
at place which lives only in the hopes
Of getting it and which will die the mo
ment it fails. Do not put the county
SCAT where town cannot be, for by
this means alone you cannot hope TO
make a town. Let us work for the gem
eral good of all in the county and we
shall do ourselves justice. We can on
ly build up and develop Barbour coun-
ty 10y adopting a liberal course, and be
ing willing TO live and let live, and not
by the few trying to get the county
seat away from where will DE the many.
Signed,
CITIZENS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
COUNTY.